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Supplier Diversity at P&G: A Core Part of the Business Strategy

Supply Chain View from the Field

Sealaska was producing the plastic caps for Liquid Tide, and Andy’s first thought was “well, we can surely finding someone who is more responsive and agile for our needs than a diverse supplier in Alaska!” Rick will be presenting at our upcoming SCRC meeting on December 7-8, 2015. Click here to register ).

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What are America’s Most Inventive Cities?

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To get a more complete view of how inventive America is as a whole, we found another database maintained by the US Patent Office that covers the years 1963-2015 and made it much easier to group patents by specific states than the previous database. .

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Doing Business in the United States

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The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. billion mt-km in 2015. In 1776, 13 British colonies declared their independence and formed the United States. In addition, the U.S.